PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Bad Bunny and his crew have left Philadelphia. The Made in America Festival, which took over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway over the weekend has wrapped. Now the extensive clean-up is underway, and roads in the area will soon reopen.
Where nationally and internationally recognized musical performers played through the weekend, now stagehands are pulling apart floors, lighting equipment, and the metal framework of a two-day music spectacle — and street crews are picking up beer, water and soda bottles, wrappers, and all sorts of red-white-and-blue trash.
Thousands of concert-goers gathered on the Parkway on Saturday and Sunday, in the vicinity of Eakins Oval, for the two-day music festival — which blocked several roads in the area, cutting off exits on both I-76 and I-676.
City officials say roads will reopen by rush hour Tuesday morning, but there will still be some street closures on and off through Tuesday as they fully clean up after the event.
Related
The Philadelphia Police Department began to enforce road closures about a week and a half ago — closing off more streets every day — as crews set up. But in about 24 hours, all will be back to normal — as major thoroughfares reopen, including most of the Parkway.
Some parking restrictions will remain in effect until every last remnant of the event has been cleared out by midnight Wednesday.